Alison Pickmere New Zealand, 1909-71
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About Alison Pickmere
Born in the Bay of Islands, Auckland in 1909, Alison Pickmere studied at University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Art in 1937, East Sydney Technical College in 1948 and in c1964 in Paris where she learned the colour etching process. A painter and printmaker, she is best remembered for her abstract interpretations of New Zealand landscapes, particularly the Northland and Auckland coasts and exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts, the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1944, the Rutland Group, and The Group in Christchurch in 1957 and 1968. She died in 1971.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Alison Pickmere from 1990 and in total 134 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 104 (78%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $3,882 for Portrait of John Weeks sold by International Art Centre in November 2010. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Alison Pickmere are held by the Suter Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery and a further two major public national galleries (see list below).
Alison Pickmere is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 199
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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